Dixons kept getting the wrong numbers with Carphone

Hundreds of store closures are brutal logic of sorting out the mess left by a disastrous retail mergerThe timing is appalling, of course. Closing 531 stores, with the loss of 2,900 jobs, in the middle of the coronavirus crisis makes Dixons Carphone look devious. Actually, though, that’s not quite fair. The truth about Dixons’ £3.8bn merger with the phone chain has been on full display for years: it was one of the worst deals in recent retail history.That’s not the fault o